Unofficial UH iPad Workshop

Philosophy of this approach

• Visual overview of a basic app
• Basics of programming
• Basics of Object-Oriented programming
• Basics of Objective-C
• Basics of Xcode
• Basics of iOS
  • Stanford lectures
    • https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-7-apps-for/id733644550
  • MVC
  • Delegation
  • Documentation
• Builing a basic app (checklist)
  • The usual parts
    • UIView
    • UIButton
    • UIViewController
    • UITableView
    • UICollectionView
    • UINavigationController
    • UITabController

Getting set up as a developer

• Sign-up
• Pay
• Deploy to a device
  • Certificates
  • https://developer.apple.com/support/technical/certificates/
  • https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html
  • https://developer.apple.com/support/technical/code-signing/

Marketing notes

Objective-C basics

• NSLog

Object-Oriented Programming

• Classes and Objects
• Properties
• Methods
• Subclasses

Patterns

• MVC
  • This is the first pattern
• Delegates

App Lifecycle

View Controller Lifecycle

• awakeFromNib
  • use a -setup method which can be called from initWithFrame and awakeFromNib
• viewDidLoad
  • outlets are set
  • initialize here, but don't work with geometry
• viewWillAppear / viewDidAppear
  • bounds are set
  • can work with screen size geometry, if not using autolayout
• viewWillLayoutSubviews / viewDidLayoutSubviews
  • can work with screen size geometry, if using autolayout

Libraries

• Facebook

  • https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/getting-started

• Parse + Facebook

  • https://www.parse.com/facebook
  • https://www.parse.com/docs/ios_guide#fbusers/iOS
  • https://parse.com/tutorials/integrating-facebook-in-ios
  • http://www.raywenderlich.com/44640/integrating-facebook-and-parse-tutorial-part-1